Hopeful Signs for U.S. Manufacturing

Anyone still thinking that the U.S. has lost its manufacturing chops hasn't been to the Greenville/Spartanburg corridor in South Carolina. John Bussey has details on The News Hub. Photo: AP.

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... the the ... you're the trophy you think ... you would suspect anything ... what's the connection we know that ... that that the US of moods swing the kind of one-way pretty wobbly and ... I keep ... the kids will be an exaggeration ... some of the kind of downbeat messages here in us what's really happening is that we're ... we're making a lot ... for just a wee little lot fewer employees because of productivity gains ... for those productivity gains are tracking the industry in us and ... the stories is Contiki Goff announced last week by Michelin you a French fry or bake in a can of ... but the new tyre factory anywhere the world next go ... to China ... the beach or South Carolina where they Ardi have a big robust higher manufacturing infrastructure ... and reason for that is productivity skill sets of ... infrastructure the court could highways so a lot of positives for the breach ... and ... John you get the sense that this he's going to be calm ... Eagle eyed trend or were we just going to ... effectively Yelp ... create enough job's offset the ones who were exporting to yield more by yet ... well I'd I the the the the various manufacturing indices are ... winding up again we're seeing one more jobs and manufacturing ... I think that ... productivity that you see in the green building on South Carolina Spartanburg South killed a ... top which you see a lot of those homes around the United States ... is available about it it's the same thing is happening a lot of other states and it's attracting ... of a work notches from abroad like the issuance but ... it's a enhancing productivity and therefore profitability of companies inside the States ... is beginning to attract a little bit of that production that was lost to overseas been years ... like China ... back to the US because costs are going up overseas and ... opportunity it is driving down costs us I won't say what the cost of transportation of getting things at the risks awful awful place to be supply chains we soul II in aam in Japan one when a lot of pumpkin plants will come in Japan ... can get Paasschen stop so is the isthe pot of it is I was you don't have the risk is if all the plants all lined up right next to each other and have the pots for want of an expired and I was accepted by a hit of other economies of scale right so maybe it's not just the supply chain getting account which you know that we have something to be shipped the opinion that the Tory get that's it that's a cost here ... a survey for the field and you may miss the latest trend ... that changes while it's an inventory being shipped around the world know the color goes to greet the center red line that read ... the other thing is that you're closer to your open market here ... on and to your customers can get your ideas for manufacture them ... and the other efficiency in these homes like this one the bike sentiment in South Carolina is that you're very close to the ... intellectual interest writes my due to technical College senior near the university's ... and of these ... companies Michelin gentle like trick ... on BMW Milliken that they're getting their talent from these universities and interacting with them ... very very closely the apprentice programs ... other efforts and and we've seen around the country people and places like Austin Texas ... where you've got an entrenched ... by the educated ... days where ... you know maybe you don't need a P. H. D. ... you need somebody with a college education who can work in one of these ... factories to become increasingly technologically coming and should increasingly caught Don't adaptive to exactly new technology coming out so that's right you know these things are the stand to be the high behind the automate its of of factories are being run by by initials into his decrees and sometimes the GDP is that it didn't rain top tier of them ... and hope that you describe in Austin discovered he didn't get Silicon Valley and upstate New York is a technology hub ... as of the ... capital of the mustard to use a lot of these around us ... and they are reason for optimism ... yet that that that that ... the prom was ... happening in ... Cleveland Philadelphia and ... Detroit given ... the state get some of this is the migration of work away from unionized jobs to non union state scope wages tend to be something that stood Sabine equilibrium but